Kathryn Owen joined EWU as Ticket Manager at the start of the
2012 Football season.

After two months as Interim Athletic Ticket Manager, she moved
to full time status in November, 2012. She oversees all ticket
sales and operations for EWU Football, Volleyball and Men’s
and Women’s Basketball.

Before joining Eastern, Owen worked for nearly three years at
TicketsWest in Spokane where she helped with ticket sales and
operations at a variety of sports, music and performing arts events
at the Spokane Arena, INB Performing Arts Center and the Bing
Crosby Theater. In 2011, she earned the company’s Customer
Service Award. She also worked behind the scenes with a variety of
clients, helping set up their events for sale in the TicketsWest
system. Owen also spent a season as a ticket seller for the Spokane
Indians Baseball team.

Prior to her work in ticketing, Owen spent more than four years
at KXLY, eventually becoming producer of Good Morning Northwest on
Saturdays and Sundays. She also served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA
volunteer with the Northeast Community Center in Spokane, working
on homeownership issues. In addition, she was a staff reporter for
the Newport Mines and Gem State Miner newspapers in Pend Oreille
County.

Owen grew up in Spokane, where she still lives, and graduated
from North Central High School in 1994. She earned a
bachelor’s degree in communications from Washington State
University in 1998.